Venture capital-backed LendingClub, the world’s biggest online platform connecting borrowers and investors, has filed to launch an IPO. The Norwest Venture Partners-backed finance company has not said how many shares it will issue, but has listed its proposed maximum aggregate price as $500m in its filing with the US securities regulator. LendingClub lets individual investors[...]

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